<b><a href="http://www.fark.com/comments/7518060/81672978#c81672978" target="_blank">GhostFish</a>:</b> <i>This would probably be a lot more entertaining than that Whitehouse sitcom that NBC is coming out with.</i>

Also, was it tied to the soup kitchen fundraiser (which did produce a 'thanks, guys' pat on the back thread) or not?

There were common organizers in both fundraisers. However I don't think they were directly joined. In the last thread the highlights where.

1. One farker who donated 1k pulled his donation out because RichieLaw (the guys whose bank account the kickstarter was ending up in) wasn't being responsive.2. Richie, again the guy whose bank account was set to get the money from KS, came in and posted something about forgetting about the fundraiser and being unsure about the tax liability.3. Various arguing by Fark Lawyers/Accountants over the tax issues.4. Complaints about the transparency of the fundraiser.5. Eventual full on trolling by parties on both sides, complete with threats to leave for reddit by one organizer and other crap in that vein.

ha-ha-guy:ExperianScaresCthulhu: Wait, are you for real? :( That's bogus, man.

Also, was it tied to the soup kitchen fundraiser (which did produce a 'thanks, guys' pat on the back thread) or not?

There were common organizers in both fundraisers. However I don't think they were directly joined. In the last thread the highlights where.

1. One farker who donated 1k pulled his donation out because RichieLaw (the guys whose bank account the kickstarter was ending up in) wasn't being responsive.2. Richie, again the guy whose bank account was set to get the money from KS, came in and posted something about forgetting about the fundraiser and being unsure about the tax liability.3. Various arguing by Fark Lawyers/Accountants over the tax issues.4. Complaints about the transparency of the fundraiser.5. Eventual full on trolling by parties on both sides, complete with threats to leave for reddit by one organizer and other crap in that vein.

ha-ha-guy:ExperianScaresCthulhu: Wait, are you for real? :( That's bogus, man.

Also, was it tied to the soup kitchen fundraiser (which did produce a 'thanks, guys' pat on the back thread) or not?

There were common organizers in both fundraisers. However I don't think they were directly joined. In the last thread the highlights where.

1. One farker who donated 1k pulled his donation out because RichieLaw (the guys whose bank account the kickstarter was ending up in) wasn't being responsive.2. Richie, again the guy whose bank account was set to get the money from KS, came in and posted something about forgetting about the fundraiser and being unsure about the tax liability.3. Various arguing by Fark Lawyers/Accountants over the tax issues.4. Complaints about the transparency of the fundraiser.5. Eventual full on trolling by parties on both sides, complete with threats to leave for reddit by one organizer and other crap in that vein.

So yeah, it was a clusterfark compared to the SVDP one.

You forgot to include 6: RichieLaw explained everything he was going to do once the holiday madness was over, which included distributing the money, sending thank-you cards, printing and sending out t-shirts and contacting Biden's office with a summary of what happened.

It looks like he let his TF lapse and I haven't seen him in liter land. Not that I'm the authority on tracking people around here by any stretch. He does have a public email in his profile. You see some of the other people in the politics tab here and there, so I know they're active. No idea if they want to comment or not.

GreatGlavinsGhost:You forgot to include 6: RichieLaw explained everything he was going to do once the holiday madness was over, which included distributing the money, sending thank-you cards, printing and sending out t-shirts and contacting Biden's office with a summary of what happened.

Can you link to that post, because I honestly did not see that. To be fair though within 100 posts the trolling had already begun and I was mostly skimming.

It looks like he let his TF lapse and I haven't seen him in liter land. Not that I'm the authority on tracking people around here by any stretch. He does have a public email in his profile. You see some of the other people in the politics tab here and there, so I know they're active. No idea if they want to comment or not.

I thought it was interesting. Not funny, but interesting. My wife and I run fundraisers a few times/year and out of pure curiosity I watched to see what would happen. The execution could have been better with little to no additional effort.

Of course, that goes for raising money for charity. If that wasn't the real intent then maybe what they were doing was perfect.

ha-ha-guy:GreatGlavinsGhost: You forgot to include 6: RichieLaw explained everything he was going to do once the holiday madness was over, which included distributing the money, sending thank-you cards, printing and sending out t-shirts and contacting Biden's office with a summary of what happened.

Can you link to that post, because I honestly did not see that. To be fair though within 100 posts the trolling had already begun and I was mostly skimming.

/it will head off a shiatstorm in this thread if it can be cited

Gah! It's near the end of the last official GJTB thread. I'm in the middle of a picture right now, but I can look later.

Yeah, I am totally sure that Joe Biden, the VP of the United States, is willing to let a TV camera crew follow him around with his day to day life of (quite probably) dealing with some confidential stuff.

doubled99:I bet it will be just as funny as the whole "buy him a bird" thing.

I managed to find the link, I was searching the Farkives for GJTB, when it was actually spelled out in the headline. As it stands I control+f'd RichieLaw and gave up in disgust because he was responding to so many people and had a bunch of parallel debates open. I'll just go with if anyone cares they can search it. I tried control finding for holiday, contact, thank you, but failed to spot the post. If someone else can up with a better term or wants to wade through all 97 RichieLaw results, go for it.